2011-2012 Final Record: 19-1#6 in New Jersey#4 in Shore Conference2nd Place District 21CJG4 State Sectional FinalistsA-South Champions9th Place Beast of the East

Jackson took a pretty sizable hit to graduation, and as a result, will feature one of their youngest teams in quite some time. Still there is some very solid talent returning, and the Jags storied feeder program has consistently pumped out great talent. So they may be young, but they're still Jackson.

In the lower half of the lineup looms the 1-2 punch at 138 & 145 of Brian Hamann and Spencer Young. Hamann is a 2-time State placer and would most like be a 3-timer if not for an injury his sophomore season, while Young is a 3-time Region qualifer. Jackson also gets a boost down low with the return of Alec Huxford, a District champ and Region runner-up in 2011, who missed most of last season with an injury. That trio is joined by returning starters junior Austin Clarke, and sophomores Fred Terranova and Hunter Reese.

The upper half of the lineup returns District champ Ken Bradley, but other than him, there is not a whole lot of experience returning as five starters were lost to graduation, including 2012 State champ Dallas Winston. Junior James Langschultz is the next most experienced returnee with eleven matches wrestled last year; no one else wrestled in more than four. That means the bulk of the rebuilding work Jackson will have to do is going to be in this group.

Since the Jags rise up to State's elite just over a decade ago, the team has had the remarkable ability to simply reload year after year. Their storied feeder programs have had a lot to do with this, as well as their top notch coaching staffs.
They will be put to the test this year, but as history has shown, you
can never quite count at Jackson. The names change, but the goal stays
the same. The team will continue to focus on being one of the top teams in the Shore and State, and I'm not sure anyone is ready to count them out just yet.